Castleton State College - Castletone Yearbook (Castleton, VT)

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Excerpts fr om THE WORLD OF TOMORROW Baccalaureate Address of Dr. Mary E. Woolley President Emeritus , Mount Holyoke College . . . Emphasis upon the changes which have come within the twentieth cen¬ tury is not new, they have been too spectacular to escape attention . . . Like a Frankenstein, humanity stands on the brink of being destroyed by its own in¬ ventions . . . As we look over the last twenty years, we know that it was indeed “one of the most tragic periods in history,” tragic because after the close of the World W ar, by the institution of a Society of Nations, man had professed “his faith in the principles of freedom and justice”—and then began his “retreat from that ideal . . . a retreat in which the United States participated.” Truly, the international hell of today is paved with neglected opportunities. As a result we are facing momentous issues. “A conflict between imperial¬ ism?” Would that it were that and nothing more! . . . The World of Tomorrow in 1919 has become in 1941 the World of Today . . . One of the merciful Providences of life is that the new day brings a new op- mnety-two

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Commencement Week Saturday, June 8, 6:30 o’clock Alumni Banquet.Leavenworth Hall Sunday, June 9, 3:00 o’clock Baccalaureate.Campus Tuesday, June 11, 10:00 o’clock Commencement.Campus BACCALAUREATE SERVICE Processional.Orchestra Once to Every Man and Nation—Welch Hymn Tune Music—The Lord’s Prayer. Malotte Mixed Choir Invocation.Rev. Maxwell Clough, Castleton Scripture.Principal Caroline S. Woodruff Music—My Heart Ever Faithful. Bach Glee Club Baccalaureate Address—-The World of Tomorrow Dr. Mary E. Woolley, President Emeritus, Mt. Holyoke College Music—-All Praise to Thee. Tallis Glee Club Benediction.Rev. Maxwell Clough, Castleton Recessional . . Orchestra [ram Invocation.Rev. Morgan Ashley, Rutland Hymn to Joy. Beethoven Mixed Chorus Music—Essex Folk Song Welch Folk Song Women’s Chorus Address—Something Hidden Behind the Ranges Dr. F rancis L. Bailey, State Commissioner of Education Music—-Turn Ye To Me.Scotch Folk Song Mixed Chorus Announcements—- Presentation of Gifts—Presidents of Senior, Junior, Sophomore Classes and Other Groups Dedication of Gymnasium.Mr. John Redwood Fisher, Chairman State Board of Education Acceptance of Gifts.Principal Caroline S. Woodruff Awards—Proctor Cup, Harriet Haskell Medal, Omicron Sigma Keys, Ladd-Patch Award, Plumley Cup Awarding of Diplomas and Certificates Conferring of Degrees.Commissioner Francis L. Bailey Alma Mater ninety-one

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portunity. There is no reason why the mistakes of the past, responsible for the troubled world of the present, should be repeated in the World of Tomorrow . . . Preparedness is often on our lips today; I do not need to tell you in what sense . . . Preparedness for construction, not for destruction, learning how to live together, not how to destroy one another, that is the problem of the century, the problem which must be solved if civilization is to endure . . . To the words of Dr. Valkonen I add the words of Robert Sherwood: “We are conscious of our past failures. We are conscious of our present perils . . . We are armed with more bitter experience, more profound knowledge, than any generations that ever were in the history of the world. If we can’t use this ex¬ perience and this knowledge, then the human history is really finished, and we can go back and achieve forgetfulness and peace in the ooze from which we ascended.’’ Life based on the ideal of the Sermon on the Mount, or life based on the lack of ideals which today is making of Europe a shambles, . . . which shall it be? A race of human beings, believing in love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, good¬ ness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control, or a race of robots, the individual simply a cog in a mechanized world? The power of the spirit, it is the supreme need of the world, the hope of a new world order. May we be ready to meet this test in the World of Tomorrow. ninety-three